04236nam 2200721Ia 450 991081404190332120200520144314.01-136-32208-60-203-12057-41-283-84127-41-136-32209-410.4324/9780203120576 (CKB)2670000000298811(EBL)1074938(OCoLC)821173790(SSID)ssj0000812061(PQKBManifestationID)11463091(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000812061(PQKBWorkID)10859593(PQKB)11455578(MiAaPQ)EBC1074938(Au-PeEL)EBL1074938(CaPaEBR)ebr10631094(CaONFJC)MIL415377(OCoLC)900237919(EXLCZ)99267000000029881120120227d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhere no man has gone before essays on women and science fiction /edited by Lucie Armitt1st ed.London Routledge20121 online resource (249 p.)Routledge library editions.Women, feminism and literature ;v. 1First published in 1991 by Routledge.0-415-75226-4 0-415-52125-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Where No Man Has Gone Before; Copyright; Where No Man Has Gone Before; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Writing Through the Century: Individual Authors; Chapter 1. The loss of the feminine principle in Charlotte Haldane's Man's World and Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night; Chapter 2. 'Shambleau . . . and others': therole of the female in the fiction of C. L Moore; Chapter 3. Remaking the Old World: Ursula Le Guln and the American tradition; Chapter 4. Doris Lessing and the politics of violence; Part II. Aliens and Others: A Contemporary PerspectiveChapter 5. Mary and the monster: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Maureeen Duffy's Gor SagaChapter 6. Pets and monsters: metamorphoses in recent science fiction; Chapter 7. Between the boys and their toys: the science fiction film; Chapter 8. Your word is my command: the structures of language and power In women's science fiction; Chapter 9. 'I'm not in the business I am the business': women at work in Hollywood science fiction; Part III. Readers and Writers: SF as Genre Fiction; Chapter 10. Writing science fiction for the teenage reader; Chapter 11. Sex, sub-atomic particles and sociologyChapter 12. Maeve and Guinevere: women's fantasy writing in the science fiction market placeChapter 13. 'Goodbye to all that ...'; Bibliography; IndexHow do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry?These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women's interest in science fiction is by noRoutledge library editions.Women, feminism and literature.Science fiction, EnglishWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismScience fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismWomen and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesScience fiction, EnglishWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Science fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Women and literature809.38762Armitt Lucie1962-169219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814041903321Where no man has gone before1332214UNINA